Chapter 6
I tried to bring up god statistics, but it just repeated what I saw earlier about my sphere of influence.
When I brought up follower skills, I came up with a large list, which I separated between priest skills, and follower skills.
The priest skills included classics such as heal, revive, turn undead, and the different tiers of such spells. Interestingly, the spells seem to rise and grow in power parallel with the universal balance. The priest skills could also only be performed by those that have a priest=like class (priest, shaman, paladin, etc.) and become my follower.
The Follower skills followed a kind of skill tree that used intimacy with me to buy the next skill level. They were also far more interesting than the priest skills, and I also had the ability to tinker with my follower skills. When I was done, they ended up like this.
Balanced Strike
Coat your weapon with Chaos and Order magic, having it deal +100% Order damage and +100% Chaos damage on top of your normal damage.
Cost: Half your current mana (minimum 100 mana)
Fool Balance
Reverse your Fame and Infamy for 10 minutes,
lasts longer the closer the balance is.
If using this ability makes your Fame higher than your infamy, it hides the murderer's mark for the duration
24 hour cooldown
costs: 50% max health, 50% max mana, 50% max stamina.
PKers and assassins will love this.
Balance Keepers
(passive)
intimacy with orderly and chaotic factions rise and fall at half the rate.
intimacy with orderly and chaotic factions rise and fall as one. Performing orderly actions do not decrease intimacy with chaotic factions, and performing chaotic actions do not decrease intimacy with orderly factions.
As far as I could tell, orderly factions included things like town guards, armies, or adventurers guilds. Chaotic factions included assassins, murderers, or warmongers. Being friendly with a lot of people is incredibly useful.
Balanced Mage
(passive)
Increases ability to dual cast
Order and Chaos magic rise at half the rate
Order and Chaos magic rise as one
You may learn from magical schools that conflict with each other
(Order and Chaos, Fire and Ice, Earth and Wind)
You may combine spells from conflicting magical schools)
The closer the universal balance is, the stronger you will get.
Multiplies mental stats by balance percent
100%= 2 times multiplier
75%=1.5 times multiplier
50%=1 times multiplier
25%=.5 times multiplier
0%=.1
It seems that if you have multiple elements that conflict with each other, they rise at a slower pace. So normally, Mages could only bring Chaos magic up to a couple levels before it made their Order magic experience bar slow to a snail's pace.
Powerful mages and wizards of all kind will adore the idea of getting to learn more.
Balanced Warrior
(passive)
increases balance
The closer the universal balance is, the stronger you will get.
multiplies physical stats by balance percent
100%= 2 times multiplier
75%=1.5 times multiplier
50%=1 times multiplier
25%=.5 times multiplier
0%=.1
Balanced Warrior and Mage are my pride and joy. they give my followers a huge advantage over other religions, and it also gives adventurers the incentive to choose me. On top of all that, it also gets my followers to do my job for me to help them preserve their power.
Sense Balance
Able to sense generally what the balance of the universe is to the closest 25% increment.
costs:100 mana
Meh, basically just a shittier version of my ability. It won't tell you why the world's fucked up, but it'll kinda tell you that it is. This should help my followers decided what they should be doing to help me.
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Summon Libra’s sword
Requires max intimacy with Libra
Libra entrusts you with her magical sword which has the ability to slay gods.
For being a godly item, it grants 200% stat inflation while you have it summoned.
Duration: 10 minutes to 1 hour depending on how long Libra will let you keep it.
Cost: 50% max health, 50% max mana, 50% max stamina.
Mortal bodies are not meant to wield such powerful artifacts, and as such, you will encounter massive penalties after summoning.
50% stat reduction for 2 weeks after it is returned
Causes death after it is returned
Misuse of the sword may lead to being cursed by Libra.
Note: All follower and priestly spells become more powerful both the closer the balance is, and your intimacy with Libra.
I didn’t really like the idea of people being able to take my sword. It has the capability to slay fucking gods if you hit them enough. I was unable to delete the ability, so I just ramped up the penalties and requirements... which made the ability even stronger. Fuck.
Well, at least it will look juicy enough to tempt people. Not that i’ll allow my intimacy with somebody to increase that high... I’d better keep an eye on my followers just in case though.
ding!
You have gained one follower: Jacob Enten
you may look at your followers stats, abilities, and inventory by saying 'follower status (followers name)’. You may also look at your complete list of followers by saying ‘follower list’
“follower status, Jacob Enten.”
ding!
Name: Jacob Enten
Class: None
Level: 10
Race: Minor Titan
Health: 160/160 +8/minute
Mana: 60/60 +.4/minute
Strength: 14
Agility: 12
Vitality: 16
Dexterity: 11
Intelligence: 6
Wisdom: 4
‘What’s a minor titan?’ I wondered
ding!
a Minor Titan is a descendant of the now extinct Titan tribe that died out during the great war. They were once as tall as mountains, and stronger than demigods. Minor Titan’s have increased physical stats, and decreased mental ones. Cosmetic differences are the average height of 7 feet, and blue shaded skin.
Sooo... a barbarian joined the blue man group then. I also wondered why he didn’t have the charisma or willpower stats, but that might just be because you have to unlock it later on.
I peered through the mirror to see that Jacob was walking around the city, looking into shop windows and sighing. He was currently wearing nothing but the noob uniform that everybody else got upon spawn. He also had a one handed sword which was in a sheath attached to his belt.
‘He looks rather weak, I wonder if there’s a way to help him’
ding!
You have learned the god ability Bless!
Bless
Give a temporary or permanent buff to one of your followers, (permanent buffs only last for as long as they are your follower)
Cost: None
Cooldown's of temporary buffs are equal to six times the buff duration
Permanent buff Cooldown: 1 week.
So... a little bit of quick math here, If I want to buff somebody for more than 24ish hours, I might as well just go for the permanent buff. Damn, I suck at math.
Sure! Why the hell not. I wanna reward my first follower for something.
ding!
You have been blessed by your patron Goddess Libra.
+10 Intimacy
You have the ability to unlock either the ability Balanced Warrior, or Balanced Mage.
Huh, seems like I get a copy of the popups I send my followers.
ding!
You have chosen the ability Balanced Mage!
Huh? Do you even know how games work? You are obviously a warrior race, choose the goddamn warrior skill! If you wanted to be a mage, you should’ve picked a fucking elf or something!